(53) . 



Neb: and you may obferve , that the growth above 

 ground, at the firli motion upward , is nothing pro- 

 portionable to the motion downward. After the rcoc 

 h wclljxudeand farhied betwixt the leaves that were 

 actually contained j in the iced , there arifes into mora 

 plain, light and ap£ ear m,e,that litle Scrmen befpr^iia 

 many plants icarqe feendike to that bud, which is (eft 

 on plants in winter,". hich fprmging,brings forduhe 

 true leaves and Branche, of the plant lb wen. 



If I am enquired of , w hether each feed has a com- 

 plex elfence and diiUnfl form of its own. Nay fur- 

 ther , whether it be a true and perfect plant ? I 

 muft fay that 1 have found it fo to be, even more than 

 nnegge, aiiveing thing,and immediately nourifhable 

 It his root to gro-v, body to bear the port of the 

 plant , Bark tp direct the Sap into all its parts , and 

 germenor bud to fecure the meanes of future growth, 

 and to boo.e leaves , which is all and fome^hrt more 

 than in the winter the fturdieft Ckec?n boaixof. 



It has been accounted an Intereft in Philofohpy 

 hererofore,and that in our Schooles , that feed fhould 

 not be eReemed an aclual and form 1 " vl-.nt,becaufe of 

 divers abfurdities, that if feed were animili , would 

 happen in their Schoole doftrine ; as that there would 

 be pluralities of formes in the fame trees ; 1 he Soule 

 might be divifible into parts ; 1 he fame thing might 

 be agent and patient ; Niy fame Live (aid, that in 

 may be of dangerous confequenee in Divinity, if it 

 were granted , that feeds had the a£uall formes and 

 effence of that thing whofe Seeds they were. 



I am glad tls noe Herefy now, ro appeal to fenfe 

 from a Doctors opinion , and that X may f r ecly in this 

 matter require to.be tryed by my garden , though i t 

 be again!* the fentence arid Judgment. of the Do&ors 



